Here is a taste of “out of the norm” gift giving ideas that are more friendly to our planet.
Many of these organizations have online stores. Those without stores can have donations made to them in a loved ones name.
Special Note: Ideas are happily accepted for this page. My criteria for listing is that the vendors/organizations are socially responsible and environmentally friendly – free from sweatshop labor; promoting reducing, reusing, recycling; advocating the community/people business concept as the alternative to corporate globalization; promoting and supporting fair trade products; promoting the use of organic materials where possible; and advocating peace, justice, human rights and living wages.)
DISCLAIMER: Listings of businesses and organizations here are endorsed as socially conscious businesses, for the convenience of shoppers who are seeking such businesses, in accordance with the criteria listed above.
The listings do not imply or insinuate endorsement of businesses,their philosophies or practices by the other businesses and organizations listed here.
Special Announcement for Christmas 2007
Please consider giving a tax-deductible donation to Blue Sky Institute for acquisition of property in Salt Lake for a Community Peace House. The property would be used for office space for peace and justice and education non-profits, common community meeting and event space and space for a garden and greenhouse. Contact Blue Sky Insitute or 801-502-8556.
Thanks to those who have generously donated!
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 
Utah Valley Cohousing Community/Ecovillage
Friends:
The Utah Valley Cohousing Community, to be located south of Salt Lake City and close to Brigham Young University, welcomes participation by individuals and families interested in: community-supported agriculture; permaculture; geothermal and solar energy; co-housing; eco-village development; and sustainable living in general. The UVCC has no religious or political affiliation, and includes (at the moment) LDS and non-LDS folks. Everyone is welcome. At present we are very early in the planning stage, and no site has been selected. The list will serve as forum for discussion, leading (it is hoped) to practical expression in the form of eco-village and/or co-housing development in or near Provo, Utah. Our models are the Eco-Village at Ithaca(http://www.ecovillage.ithaca.ny.us/), Champlain Valley Co-Housing (http://www.champlainvalleycohousing.org), and Earthsong Eco-Neighborhood (http://www.earthsong.org.nz), suitably modified to local conditions.
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”–
Victor Hugo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/utahvalleycohousing/